Iurii Dmitrievich Prokoshkin

Prokoshkin, Iurii Dmitrievich

Born Dec. 19, 1929, in Moscow. Soviet physicist. Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1970). Member of the CPSU since 1963.

Prokoshkin graduated from Moscow State University in 1952. From 1953 to 1963 he worked at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna. In 1963 he became director of a section of the Institute of High-energy Physics at Serpukhov.

Prokoshkin’s principal works deal with the physics of elementary particles. Prokoshkin studied the formation of π-mesons and discovered and investigated the processes of β-decay of pions and capture of pions by the nuclei of bound hydrogen. During the period 1968–72, Prokoshkin and his colleagues conducted experiments on the detection of antihelium-3; he was part of the group that discovered the Serpukhov effect in total cross sections and a scaling invariance in the formation of particles at high energies.

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